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Rick Santorum could be unlikely Iowa force
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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Mar 10, 2011 11:34pm |
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| News Date | Friday, March 11, 2011 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | He barely registers in most early polling. He was crushed at the polls five years ago when he sought reelection. He even acknowledges the widespread belief that he can’t possibly win the Republican presidential nomination.
And yet Rick Santorum could alter the course of the Iowa caucuses.
National Republicans may scoff at the notion that Santorum — whose Senate career ended in 2006 with an 18-point loss — could be a player, but he’s signed up strategists here who know the state well, and veteran Iowa activists think he could have an opening.
Recent history proves there’s a space for an unyielding cultural conservative. Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson, who took 25 percent of the Iowa vote to come in second place in 1988, and Mike Huckabee, who won the 2008 caucuses with 34 percent, are the best-known examples. But even in 1996 and 2000, when establishment Republicans Bob Dole and George W. Bush captured Iowa, candidates to their right drew roughly a quarter of the vote. |
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